bug#33613: 25.2; mail-header-parse-address: scan-error "Unbalanced parenthesis" 7 32

[micah anderson]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> micah anderson wrote:
>
>>   mail-header-parse-address("dr ebs (\\_O<) <dre@foo.net>")
>
> It could probably be handled more elegantly, but IIUC
>
> "dr ebs (\\_O<) <dre@foo.net>"
>
> isn't valid in an email header, because the () are special characters
> that should be quoted in the display name, per RFC5322.

Yeah, the text that comes before the <dre@foo.net> in an OpenPGP userID
is defined as arbitrary UTF-8 text, so it should not be considered to be
following any email address standard.

-- 
        micah